Proverbs 31:8

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 82:3-4 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
  • 1 Sam 22:14-15 : 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house? 15 Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
  • Jer 26:16-19 : 16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God. 17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, 18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and usalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. 19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
  • Jer 26:24 : 24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with emiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
  • Jer 38:7-9 : 7 Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put emiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; 8 Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to emiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city. 10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up emiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
  • John 7:51 : 51 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
  • Esth 4:13-16 : 13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer ther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt cape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. 14 For if thou altogether holdt thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be dtroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? 15 Then ther bade them return Mordecai this answer, 16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are prent in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
  • Job 29:9 : 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
  • Job 29:12-17 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
  • Ps 79:11 : 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
  • Prov 24:7 : 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
  • 1 Sam 19:4-7 : 4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good: 5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause? 6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain. 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
  • 1 Sam 20:32 : 32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

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    9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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    15He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

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    15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

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    13Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

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    2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Ps 39:9
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    9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

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    13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

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  • Ps 31:18
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    22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither opess the afflicted in the gate:

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    4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

  • Ezek 24:27
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    27In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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    7The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

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    11If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

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